I was trying to make a spell that detects things on the Road, as a prelude for Range:Road spells for my Merinita magus, and I ended up with this:
The issue is that, like "Sense the Feet that Thread the Earth", it targets the ground rather than the things on it.
Therefore, it's a Target:Road rather than a Range:Road (Neo-Mercurian Magic, reserved for mages with the Mercurian Magic Major Hermetic Virtue, TM:RE p116)
Can anyone see a way to achieve this anyway? Would you grant lenience and consider this ok with Range:Road instead?
Even if you had the Neo Mercurian parameter, the spell would need to be range touch, so level 20 rather than 15.
Intellego spells have a bit of leeway with the limit of arcane connections. Here's the text of the limit (emphasis mine):
Look at tread of Fellow travelers from MoH p.66 and traveler's Foresight from page 125 of the same book. They both use range road to be able to sense a target that's on the road with the caster so they can target what their intellego spell discovers with another range road spell.
Ah yes, my initial spell had Range:Road, that's why it's lvl 15 (although I probably should have added +2 for Group)
Thanks for the references!
I went for crafted objects to discount fallen rocks & trees and suchlike.
Intellego Terram spells are not affected by the material of the thing affected, so no need for Form requirements.
